Anna Harrison was the wife of the 9th United States President, William Henry Harrison. She was born on July 25th, 1775 in New Jersey to a family from Long Island. Anna Harrison was an educated woman during her era. Education was highly important to her father who was a New Jersey’s Supreme Court Chief of Justice. Anna Harrison was the first First Spouse to have a formal education documented who [...]
The American Eagle Gold coins are the most sought after coins series by investors and collectors alike around the world. The reason being that the series are the only bullion coins that were guaranteed by the government of the United States for its purity, weight, and gold content. Under the authorization of the Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985, the United States Mint released the American Eagle Gold Coins, a [...]
The last silver dollar coin in US legal tender circulation was the Peace Dollar. It was so named because of the world “peace” inscribed near the bottom in the coin’s reverse side on all its mint versions from 1921 to 1936. A History The American Numismatic Association, through its editor Frank G, Duffield in its November 1918 edition of The Numismatist magazine, lobbied for a commemorative coin to celebrate the [...]
Issued by the US government from 1971 to 1978, the Eisenhower Dollar was a $1 coin struck in memory of the nation’s 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower who passed away in 1969. The coin also served to commemorate the Apollo 11 landing of the first man on the moon in the same year. It has been minted over an 8-year period and apart from being circulated in casinos and saved-up [...]
There is no denying that since the beginning of human evolution age, gold has been the most popular and most precious type of metal to be used as an investment. It has been the sanctuary for investors and collectors alike against crisis such as the economic or currency based. Quoting from a certain Karl Marx, “Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and [...]